I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Walgreens (Milwaukee, WI) in Jun 2016
Interview
Overall easy. I sent in my application and got a call about 1.5 months later to set up an interview. I had never worked at a chain pharmacy nor had I had any actual work experience in a pharmacy outside of APPEs.
As others have said, all situational/behavioral questions... just go through the questions listed by other reviewers, think about how you'd answer them, and you should be fine. I actually had a small notebook with several situations written down (with me in the interview) so I could quickly draw upon one and answer the question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you display empathy toward a patient or customer and how did you know you were effective in displaying that empathy?
Was able to schedule my interviews quickly and they were very responsive to emails. They asked very basic questions about your background as well as your motivations for applying. The recruiters were very nice and easy to talk to.
There were behavior based interview questions, tell me about yourself, strengths and weaknesses. Usually with a pharmacy and store manager. Maybe with a district manager. A tour is given if interview is in person.
Interview process was really easy - they ask basic questions for any normal pharmacist job and a routine screening. I worked at Walgreens as an intern for most of my college years so there wasn't much additional screening for hiring as a pharmacist.
Pharmacist applicants have rated the interview process at Walgreens with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Pharmacist roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 208 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Walgreens overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Walgreens as a Pharmacist according to 208 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Drug test: 18%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Background check: 10%
Group panel interview: 6%
Presentation: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
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